AAUP Updates

After more than three and a half years, student loan payments will resume in early fall. Make sure you’re ready!

The AAUP and the Nevada Faculty Alliance filed a joint amicus brief in support of a former University of Nevada, Reno, assistant professor who alleges that her tenure denial, based largely on assessment of student evaluations of her teaching, violates the Title...

After months of organizing, more than 80 percent of the 170 faculty at Howard Community College and 100 faculty at Frederick Comunity College petitioned the state Public Employee Relations Board to join the AAUP, AFT-Maryland, and the AFT.

The AAUP urges WVU's governing board and administration to reaffirm their commitment to shared governance standards and the role of faculty in addressing financial crises.

By limiting racial and economic diversity on college campuses, legacy admissions, particularly in highly selective schools, effectively restrict racial and economic diversity in workplaces and in economic and political power structures.

The Supreme Court has dashed the hopes of millions of borrowers who had expected to benefit from the Biden administration's 2022 student-loan-relief plan. Although the plan was not a solution to the crisis of affordability in higher education, it was a first...

The Supreme Court has struck a significant blow to long-standing efforts of universities to ensure that students of all races have equal access to higher education. It now falls to the higher education community to protect what we value: ensuring access to...

After ten years as executive director of the AAUP, Julie Schmid will begin a new position with the American Federation of Teachers in July. Current deputy executive director Nancy Long will step into the role of interim executive director.

Today, the AAUP filed an amicus brief in support of Florida faculty who are challenging the state’s “Stop WOKE” Act. That law, passed in 2022, prohibits professors at Florida’s public universities from expressing certain disfavored viewpoints while teaching on...

Librarians at Miami University have voted unanimously to join the Faculty Alliance of Miami, an affiliate of the AAUP and the American Federation of Teachers. The new union will include more than thirty librarians.

The AAUP's 2022–23 Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession, released today, finds that real average salaries have declined by 2.4 percent after adjusting for inflation, making this the third consecutive year that wage growth has fallen short of...

An AAUP special committee established to review the apparent pattern of politically, racially, and ideologically motivated attacks on public higher education in Florida has released a preliminary report concluding that academic freedom, tenure, and shared...